songs i remember most

I was listening to my collection of "Timeless Classics" MP3s this morning while fixing up my wife's PC when I suddenly found myself fluttering in a nostalgic trip to a sentimental past. Each track plays my mind a montage of events in my life which were already history. Some were happy thoughts; others are tear-jerking episodes which all are worth reminiscing. Moments later, I was already living in the past. Recollecting the people, the places and the times...

These are the songs that made me soar back to the past:

1. Missing You - topping my list is this John Waite's song which I don't actually remember any significant event why I go sentimental whenever I hear this. I just love this song very much that it hits me in the spot. It was finally revived by Tina Turner and I still loved it. Both versions give me a striking air inside.
2. Almost Over You - another song which really has no significant event that I can associate with in my life but this is one heartwarming song that I always get a lockjaw whenever I hear this. FYI: I always ask my girl friends to sing this in videoke for me.
3. All Out of Love - Ok, fine! This is Air Supply and it is "baduy" to most of the people who hears this but this is one of the songs that make me remember my childhood days. Read: I steal coins from our grocery store's cash register just to hear this in our neighborhood jukebox.
4. That's The Way of Friends - believe it or not, this is the first song I have memorized when I was still age 5. I got tired of nursery rhymes very early in my age that I turned singing radio songs instead.
5. Terminal - the second song I have memorized and became my favorite more than the first one.
6. Vincent - the song I always sing on my way to school when I was already in First Grade. I didn't know its title until I was already in Fifth Grade.
7. The Search is Over - this is one song I wish I was the one who wrote and sang it. This marks a great period in my gradeschool life that it became my favorite for long years.
8. Dust in the Wind
9. Fast Car - two of the songs I loved playing in the guitar. Dust in the Wind is the first song I learned strumming and Fast Car is the first one I learned plucking.
10. Old Photographs
11. When I'm Gone - these two songs both have the same intensity on how it strikes me whenever I hear them. I even thought they are the same songs and were sung by the same singer. Maybe it's because they are both tragic.
12. Against All Odds - I haven't seen the movie where this song was played as its OST but I really loved this one. There was even a time I forgot to pay fare in the jeepney just because I heard this song which mesmerized me `til I reached my destination.
13. Is It Okay If I Call You Mine - not really my favorite one but this song makes me remember a highschool girlfriend. I always sing this song to her then. Her name is in the title :o).
14. Love Me for What I Am - not also my favorite but in reverse, this makes me remember a college girlfriend. She wrote the lyrics in the card she gave me when we broke up. Eeuuw... mushy.
15. Out Here on My Own - not once my favorite but it became one. During one of our rehearsals in highschool theater, my crush sang this one while we were in backstage waiting for cue. I became more in love with her. Now, she's no longer out there on her own. She's married.
16. One In A Million You - one of the immortal songs I always loved to sing in videoke. I always get 100%, hahaha. It's because I give my all whenever I hit this one.
17. First Time - I first heard this one in a Coca-Cola commercial. I still remember vividly how the guy blushed when his crush caught him staring at her in the classroom. Not long after, it happened to me.
18. Open Arms - this was the song I dreamt to be my processional march in my wedding day. Funny? I find it weird, actually. It's a good thing Mariah Carey revived the song. I lost the enthusiasm to pursue it.
19. Looking Through the Eyes of Love - it was actually my highschool friend's favorite after watching Ice Castles. She doesn't know anything else to sing but this one whenever there is a chance. She didn't know I had a crush on her. Until now that she is already married.
20. Don't Give Up On Us - my first official girlfriend in highschool played this song in her voice tape to me when she already fled back to London. She wants me to hold on 'til she comes back and fight for our "long-distance" Romeo and Juliet relationship. I failed not to give up. Not soon after, I was already singing "Is it Okay if I Call You Mine" with another.

These are just top 20 of those memorable songs that give me a sentimental feeling whenever I hear it in the air. This marks that I am an 80's boy and the songs reveal my age. I'm proud of it. I love it...